Santa Teresa Being Some Account of Her Life And Times
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 828
ISBN-13: 9781417973620
Subjects: Biography: general; Religious; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: AS the sun was about to dawn over the distant sierras of Avila, on the morning of the 28th March 1515, was born she whose marvellous personality was to overshadow and absorb its heroic past and glorious traditions,-she who was destined to be one of the principal buttresses of religious life and thought of her own age, and even yet of ours,-she who was to measure her (humanly speaking) feeble strength in checking the ravages of that portentous revolution, which, commenced seven years before her birth, ran its course parallel with her life, and ended in the dismemberment and disintegration of Catholic Christendom, destroying the unity which fifteen hundred years had consecrated-Teresa Cepeda y Ahumada.